Stitches

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 August 2026

This policy explains what information the app handles, where it is stored, and where third parties are involved.

The short version

Stitches does not ask you to create an account, and does not collect your name, email address or contact list.

Everything you do in the game — puzzle progress, daily-challenge records, streaks, statistics and settings — is stored locally on your own device. Advertising is the one area where third parties are involved, and that is described below.

Information stored on your device

The app saves the following to your device's local storage so it can keep your records and settings between sessions:

• Puzzle progress, including an in-progress board if you leave mid-play, and completion records such as solved counts and best times.
• Daily-challenge completion dates, which are used to show your streak.
• Your preferences: language, sound, haptics, theme (light or dark), and play controls such as long-press cross and confirm-before-solution.

We do not collect personal data

None of the information above is transmitted to us. We operate no server that receives your gameplay data, and we have no way to identify you as an individual user of the app.

If you use Feedback in Settings, the app can pre-fill your message with device name, model, operating system and app version. That information reaches us only if you send the email, and you can edit it before sending.

Advertising

The app displays advertisements supplied by Google AdMob and, through AdMob mediation, other advertising networks such as Unity Ads, InMobi and Meta Audience Network. These include banner ads, full-screen ads after you finish a puzzle, and optional full-screen ads you may choose to watch in exchange for a hint or to reveal a solution.

Watching an ad for a reward is always your choice. Ads shown between puzzles appear after you complete a level.

In regions where consent is required (such as the EEA and UK), the app shows a consent form from Google's User Messaging Platform before ads are requested. You can change your advertising choices later through the options that form provides, and through your device settings.

To serve ads, these networks may collect device-level information such as a resettable advertising identifier, coarse location derived from your IP address, device model and operating system version. This processing is carried out by the ad networks under their own privacy policies, not by us.

You can limit ad personalisation at any time through your device settings — "Reset advertising ID" and "Opt out of Ads Personalisation" on Android, or tracking permissions on iOS.

Permissions

The app requests internet access, which is used to load advertisements. On iOS it may also ask for tracking permission so ads can be personalised; you can decline. Choosing Rate us, Share or Feedback may open another app on your device. It does not request access to your camera, microphone, contacts, photos or precise location.

Children's privacy

The app is suitable for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because we do not collect personal data in the app, we hold no such information to delete. If you believe a third-party ad network has collected data from a child, please contact both that network and us.

Deleting your data

Because all game data lives on your device, clearing the app's storage in your device settings, or uninstalling the app, erases puzzle progress, daily-challenge records, streaks, statistics, settings and any saved board. This is immediate and irreversible. We cannot recover that data for you.

Changes to this policy

If the way the app handles data changes, this policy will be updated and the "last updated" date at the top will change. Significant changes will be noted in the app's release notes.

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